HTTP response at port 80

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1

I'm trying to serve a webpage following this tutorial: Create an HTTP Endpoint : Node-RED
And it works fine, but I'm looking for a way to serve the endpoint on port 80, without having to change NodeRED's dashboard port (1880).
I'm running NodeRED on Ubuntu Server, and I have allowed the NodeRED service to utilize ports below 1024 with: sudo setcap 'cap_net_bind_service=+ep'. I've heard of adding a NodeJS endpoint like so:

httpNode: {
        port: 80
    },

But so far I'm stuck trying to get this to work without a reverse proxy.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

2

It is probably far easier (and better) to simply spin up something like HAProxy to direct traffic from port 80 to 1880.

Question: why it it necessary? Cant you just set whatever uses the endpoint to use port 1880?

Also, I expect you will be exposing this to the internet? In which case, something HAProxy or NGINX or similar is definitely the better way to go.

3

Won't a reverse proxy redirect to the dashboard if given no subpath in the url?

4

Use two separate domains:

nodered.fubar.com:80 -- proxy --> nodered.server:1880
dashboard.fubar.com:80 -- proxy --> nodered.server:2880

or you could also setup a second port on your proxy if you're using a single domain.